Leaved vs Leaven - What's the difference?
leaved | leaven |
Having a leaf, leaves or folds; used mainly in combination with another word to form adjectives describing the number, form, colour, etc, of leaves.
Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
(figurative) Anything that makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
* Bible, Luke xii. 1
To add a leavening agent.
To cause to rise by fermentation.
(figuratively) To temper an action or decision.
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To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
* Milton
As an adjective leaved
is having a leaf, leaves or folds; used mainly in combination with another word to form adjectives describing the number, form, colour, etc, of leaves.As a noun leaven is
any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.As a verb leaven is
to add a leavening agent.leaved
English
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* leafedDerived terms
* alder-leaved * ash-leaved maple * cross-leaved * cut-leaved * broad-leaved * fig-leaved * five-leaved * four-leaved * hawkweed-leaved saxifrage * holly-leaved banksia * holly-leaved cherry * ivy-leaved * long-leaved * * narrow-leaved * nettle-leaved goosefoot * oak-leaved * red-leaved * rough-leaved * round-leaved * rue-leaved * silver-leaved * small-leaved * smooth-leaved * strawberry-leaved * thick-leaved * three-leaved * twin-leaved * two-leaved * unleaved * well-leavedSee also
* leafedAnagrams
*leaven
English
Noun
(en noun)- Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Derived terms
* leavenless * natural leavenVerb
(en verb)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer.